Clinical Supervisor in Gurnee, Illinois at Youth & Family Counseling

Youth & Family Counseling (YFC) has been opening doors to mental health care since 1962. Our mission is simple and powerful: to ensure that every person in our diverse community, regardless of age or income, can receive accessible, affordable and exceptional care. We work with children, teens, adults, couples, and families across our three Lake County locations, and we take pride in the real, lasting difference our clinical team makes in the lives of the people we serve. Our team adheres to evidence-based, measurement driven care, equipping clients not just with support, but with the tools and direction they need to reach their goals and build lasting resilience.

As a Clinical Supervisor at YFC, you'll join a team that is experienced and passionate about their work and deeply invested in each other's success. Our supervisors and staff are incredibly supportive, and that culture of care extends beyond the clients we serve — it defines how we show up for one another, too. We know that doing meaningful clinical work requires a strong foundation of guidance, collaboration, and resiliency, which is why we prioritize making sure every employee has direct, consistent access to their supervisor.

We also understand that great clinical work happens when clinicians have the tools and opportunities to keep growing. At YFC, you’ll benefit from continuing education credits. These ongoing opportunities to deepen your expertise across a wide range of specialties reflect our belief that investing in our staff's professional growth is key to doing this work well – for our staff and for the clients we serve. If you’re a person who wants to make a meaningful impact on your community while advancing your skills within a mission-driven organization that truly has your back, we’d love to have you on our team.

Essential Functions

• Handle the performance and talent development of the internal clinical team, through professional development and training.
• Provide feedback and conduct reviews on productivity, documentation, and other measures of performance.
• Develop staff, fostering clinical competencies, and professional development.
• Develop, maintain and coordinate a rigorous training schedule for the calendar year, encompassing a wide variety of clinical and administrative topics, applicable to the current needs of the team.
• Work with site directors and fellow supervisory team to identify training needs and implement curriculum/trainings accordingly.
• Ensure quality clinical training via licensed CEU provider license through IDPFR.
• Maintain clear records for CEU programming and certificates
• Work with development team to make available high-quality training and documentation.
• Coordinate, support and collaborate with external presenters, maintaining relationships and strong communication with all parties.
• Provide supervision to assigned staff.
• Assure delivery of quality services, support case assignments, balancing clinician caseloads.
• Deliver clinical supervision to provisionally licensed staff or interns.
• Review and sign off on assessments and treatment plans.
• Provide consultation for clinical emergencies and complex cases.
• Review and approve timesheets and time-off requests, ensuring appropriate staffing of programs and client care.
• Participate in the supervisory team.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement, support organizational goals, assist with clinician onboarding and offboarding.
• Support Site Director in ensuring a high-quality culture of belonging, accountability and clear expectations; both within the site and agency wide.
• Provide direct services in alignment with essential functions of a Clinical Therapist. Caseload depends on the number of supervisees.

Other Responsibilities

• Understand and manage self (aware of impact on other people and ability to regulate to maintain professional demeanor, knowledge of personal triggers and ability to manage them, maintain work/life balance, use outside resources and therapy when appropriate).
• Maintain professional and neutral workspace in accordance with YFC policies.
• Demonstrate professional communication that upholds YFC values with management, board, staff and peers including the timely communication for time both in and out of office, including vacations, holidays, illness, conferences, or personal commitments.
• With supervisor, set goals for professional development and participate in quarterly check-ins.
• Use supervision for supervisory development and support, clinical conceptualization, management of self, and addressing clinical and administrative responsibilities.
• Attend and participate in weekly staff meetings and at least one Clinical Learning Group per week, deliver case presentations when requested/appropriate.
• Modeling expected behavior as noted above for their supervisees.
• Support credentialing and empanelment efforts.
• Participate in organizational planning and clinical team/skill development.
• Support fundraising efforts and activities:
• Attendance at fundraising and outreach events when requested.
• Share stories.
• Provide data as requested for reports.
• Act in accordance with YFC goals and values, including building trust, acting with integrity, and treating both clients and co-workers with respect.

• Work on-site and for a minimum of 2 evenings/week
• Fluent use of digital technologies to manage data; document care; maximize productivity; and communicate.
• Understand role and how their work contributes to organizational success.
• Works independently.
• Commitment to quality and continuous improvement: coachable, uses data and feedback to improve performance and effectiveness.
• Interest in engaging with people of all ages and from all walks of life; inclusive and respectful of all YFC stakeholders.
• Build and practice good clinical and professional boundaries.
• Build, foster and practice resiliency skills.
• Develop consistent and healthy self-care routines.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, or related field.
• License to practice independently (LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, PsyD)
• Minimum two years’ experience in an outpatient setting.
• Experience providing supervision preferred.